New i-Guide for Comcast, other cable ops, slated for second half of '09

StartOver, switched digital video support, TiVo-style searches and prompts to make sure you're really watching an HD channel are coming to Comcast and other services using the i-Guide software in the second half of '09, hopefully bringing the much-loathed Motorola set-top boxes (& tru2way HDTVs) up to par with other modern DVRs. Multichannel News reports SDV support was originally planned for this year, but got pushed back to the next major release due to glitches. If our early preview at CES '08 was any indication there's a lot to love in the new software, except for the wait until it's released.

[MiggityMikeB Posted Oct 22nd 2008 4:18PM]

Comcasts craptastic Motorola DVRs and horrible laggy buggy and ugly software is singlehandedly the reason I switched to Dish Network back in the day.

Now I'm off to DirecTV.

Cable.

Never again.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 22nd 2008 7:17PM]

Great, so now when is Comcast going to have a decent HD lineup?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 22nd 2008 4:42PM]

Hmm, what is that "Beyond TV" menu item? Any time I think "BeyondTV" I think of the PVR software product from Snapstream...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 8th 2008 12:24AM]

Must of Beyond TV OEM'd ;)

[Jay Evans Posted Oct 22nd 2008 4:43PM]

Too little, too late. Crappy quality Comcast HD. Off to DirecTV myself.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 22nd 2008 5:27PM]

Time Warner told us we'd get StartOver back in August. Instead we just got crappy Navigator software with 1000 bugs.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 22nd 2008 5:43PM]

Too little, too late. Comcast, as usual, is late to the party. They have too few HD channels, internet that's almost as dated as dial up, and an "interactive" program guide that would fit right in with Windows 3.11.

I'm off to FiOS. I can't wait to dump Crapcast.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 22nd 2008 6:32PM]

2nd half of 2009?

plastic-fantastic-comcast needs less talk/pre-announcements and a lot more timely releases

less talk, more action, huh?

while all the cable companies have their problems,
plastic-fantastic-comcast is the most expensive and has the worst support/problem resolution

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 22nd 2008 10:53PM]

In Jackson, MS area we have Scientific Atlantic receivers. I loved the GUI and the way the application worked. As of last night we have been downgraded to some crappy GUI just so they can push their on demand. For the life of me I can not understand why they would downgrade quality and remove basic functionality. One such is the ability to search for a show by name in the guide. Now you can only search by first letter of the show and one day at a time. What the hell?!?!

U-Verse needs to hurry up and expand here.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 22nd 2008 11:20PM]

But where will they put the annoying ads? I don't see any in the screenshot so I have a hard time believing it's really a Comcast product.